cropping/cutting question

[w1cho]

hi, i'm new to this forum.
when i went to renew my driver's license, i noticed that they had my recently-shot photo, then opened photoshop and loaded a "pre-established" frame or something like that, like a border, then they centered it around my face and cropped whatever was outside that frame, so the final photo would be ID-sized. i want to do the same to resize some pictures, how can i save this "frame" or what can i do?
thanx

[LucasZ21]

To do this "frame" thing you're talking about...

Crop your image

Select your image (you can use the rectangular marquee tool to do this)

Go Edit>Stroke to apply a border.

If you want to give your border a style, make your border on a new layer (after you select your image, create a new layer and do the stroke on the new layer) then right click that layer and click on "blending options" and mess around with some of the effects.

Hope I helped

[w1cho]

hi again. nope, that's not what i meant, but thanks 4 your explanation, now i learned something else .
let me try to explain what i'm saying:

imagine a common picture of you with something in the background, lets say, niagara falls. then you reach some tool on photoshop and you load a frame or rectangle you had saved before, this rectangle has a specific shape and size, lets say it's size is approx an ID's photo size. then you place this frame around your face in that picture, after that, you press or select something, and everything gets cropped except what was inside of this frame you loadedm, so now you have no niagara falls and no background and no big photo, just a small photo of your head.
this is not a frame to draw, this is not a frame you're gonna leave marked forever on this image. what i want to know is how to make or create that frame so that when i want to crop a picture, i just load the frame and crop the outside. the main reason i want this: i have 4:3 pictures and i wanna crop them to fit in my 16:9 screen (1440x900), and it's slow and boring to do it in MS Paint, i have to calculate and center the image, rotate it, ando such stuff.

i'd really appreciate if someone could help me, or at least tell me if that's not possible hehe.

thanx

[ScottyM21]

i dont get wat u mean but i can garentee that it is possible because you can do just about anything with photoshop and you can defantily do everything that you can with microsoft paint

[w1cho]

haha that's true, i bet i ignore 98% of its features .

humm let me try to explain again.
crop tool: ok so you select it, you drag and establish the size you want to crop right? so when you have your cropping-rectangle or square well adjusted to the size you want then you just hit enter and voila! everything outside that rectangle dissapears. are we ok so far? i'll go on. so what if, you could save that specific-sized rectangle (like if it was a file or like if you could save it in the clipboard) in order to always use that size so you just set the rectangle over a new photo, hit enter and voila! crop again, and you go in and out of photoshop day after day and you load that rectangle and still works.
hehe how bout now?

[ScottyM21]

im not sure how to do that exactly but you could find the size of the rectangle. and then when you create a new file enter that size and save it if you will be constantly using it. so then when import your file, all you have to do is center it and crop it. dont know if this helps but its the best i could come up with haha